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“Benefit agencies should not count a person's ownership stake in an Alaska Native Settlement Trust when deciding whether they qualify for the public benefit programs covered by this system.”
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“The new BIA leasehold mortgage decision deadlines should not apply when the applicant is a tribe that already has approved federal leasing authority.”
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“BIA should quickly notify applicants, requesters, and lenders when covered Indian land processing deadlines are missed, answer status questions, and report each year to Congress on where delays happened while keeping personal information confidential.”
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“The federal government should set strict deadlines for processing mortgages on tribal trust land to speed up homeownership and development.”
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“BIA should create a Realty Ombudsman to track covered mortgage and right-of-way deadlines, help federal mortgage agencies communicate with BIA, and take questions and complaints from tribes, tribal members, and lenders.”
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“BIA offices should have deadlines to finish certified title status reports for covered Indian land mortgage and right-of-way matters, and should tell lenders when those reports are complete.”
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“The federal government should hold named Monroe County, Tennessee lands and permanent use rights for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the tribe should be recognized as owning the existing museum buildings, improvements, and Chota and Tanasi memorials there.”
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“The Cherokee trust lands and easement areas should be used for purposes such as teaching Native history and culture, operating the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum and memorials, reburying Native remains and cultural items, providing classrooms, offices, short-term housing tied to site activities, and maintaining recreational trails.”
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“TVA should send Congress updated maps after each land or easement transfer, and the coverage provisions should treat both transferred land parcels and permanent easements as covered trust land interests.”
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“When municipal trust land returns to a Village Corporation, valid existing legal rights, road access, easements, and access routes for people with valid rights should stay in place?”
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“The covered Wounded Knee land should be used only in ways allowed by the 2022 agreement between the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, without Interior Department approval for those agreed uses.”
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“Tribes and relevant federal mortgage agencies should be able to view certain BIA land record portals, and GAO should study the need, time, and cost to digitize tribal mortgage, right-of-way, and title records.”
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“BIA offices should check mortgage and right-of-way packages on Indian land soon after they arrive and quickly tell lenders which required papers are missing.”
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“Existing recorded access, easement, right-of-way, restriction, utility, and service agreements for the covered Wounded Knee land should stay in place, and Interior should assign the applicable utility and service agreements within 365 days.”
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“Alaska Native Village Corporations should no longer have to put more land into State of Alaska trusts for cities or towns that might be created in the future.”
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“The Wounded Knee land should not be transferred to someone else unless both the Tribes and Congress agree.”
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“The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians should not be able to use these covered trust lands or permanent easements for class II or class III gaming, including casino-style gaming covered by federal Indian gaming law.”
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“The Wounded Knee land should not be used for casino-style gaming or other gaming activity covered by federal Indian gaming law.”
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“When land returns to a Village Corporation, the corporation should take over the trust's responsibilities under any existing leases or other land use agreements on that land?”
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“The Wounded Knee land should stay within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and be under the civil and criminal authority of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, while both the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe own it.”
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“The Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe should keep owning the covered Wounded Knee land, with federal protections that limit outside control and block future sale or transfer unless Congress and the Tribes agree.”
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“State and local governments should not be able to tax the Wounded Knee land after it enters restricted fee status.”
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“ANCSA section 14(c) should be reorganized with clearer headings and labels for Village Corporation land conveyances, municipal land trusts, technical assistance language, land sale definitions, acreage rules, and net revenue rules.”
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“From July 7, 2025 through July 7, 2030, benefit agencies should not count money or other benefits from an Alaska Native Settlement Trust for an Alaska Native person or descendant who is aged, blind, or disabled under Social Security rules.”
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“The covered Wounded Knee land should be treated as part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe should have civil and criminal authority there.”
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“Future development on the covered lands could have to pay TVA if it reduces flood-control storage in a way that affects hydropower capacity, and the United States would not have to pay for covered losses from flooding, waves, or Tellico Reservoir water-level changes.”
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“Before the lands enter trust, TVA should check for hazardous substances, tell the Interior Department and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians what it finds, disclose the type, amount, and cleanup history if contamination is found, and remain responsible for required environmental cleanup.”
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“TVA should be able to manage Tellico Reservoir water levels, flood certain low areas and roads, approve some tribal structures and water-use facilities, limit access that interferes with river operations, and enter the lands for reservoir, flood-control, navigation, shoreline, public-health, and similar work.”
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“BIA offices should put covered Indian land mortgage and right-of-way decisions in writing, and explain why a request was denied.”
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